[DC-0121] The essence of the state is lost in the global system of tax havens. Cayman Islands could be submerged under the sea but remain the 4th largest financial hub.

[DC-0120] To treat companies as collections of business or as a single entity?

[DC-0118] The Paradise Papers reveal another list of establishment figures embroiled in the offshore system. The inevitable denials and resignations accompany suggestions that this practice is not the norm, that it is the fault of some bad actors. Offshore is not an alternative, dark or otherwise separate system: it is the global financial system. Offshore is as much a part of global finance as SWIFT transfers or Visa. To represent it as other, or distant, perpetuates the myth of separation that allows it to retain its power and, for the mainstream part of the financial system, leverage it while decrying it as out of their hands.

5£ offshore investment in an anonymous, tax-free business and artwork. First returns February 2018.

Join us on the beach 🏖 for the first public showing of the Offshore A-Z an ongoing research project about offshore finance 💰 shown as part of HOLDING SPACE festival.
Saturday​ 25 March, 6 PM
Hunts Wharf
Leaside Road,
E5 9LU
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2 years of stealing WiFi data from power locations across Europe transformed in video, sounds and writing in the first major release of the Network Ensemble.
SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES is out on SD card and digital download this week via bandcamp.

The Network Ensemble released new music last night as SD cards [link in bio]. The album is called SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES and it collects 2 years of performances and data walks done across locations of network-infrastructural importance.
Places where communications intersect with structures of power, such as the Vatican, Canary Wharf, US Embassies, Airports...

[DC-0004] Network Studies
Installation at Deleuze Conference 2016

Don't steal my WiFi

T-shirt invocations vs. the #networkensemble

The Demystification Committee investigates the covert, extended systems of power that shape society. This exploration encompasses the study of platforms, legal frameworks, machines and communication networks.

The Committee currently focuses on the toxic relationship between finance, secrecy and sovereignty [the Offshore Studies]; and the friction between communication networks and their physical surroundings [the Network Ensemble].

The Demystification Committee is a framework for art and research operating from London, UK.

The systems that the Committee investigates make themselves known, often unintentionally, through the production of noise. When listened to, this noise helps to identify their actions, track their machinations and foresee their intentions. To facilitate this, the Committee adapts to ever-changing scales and speeds and investigates ruptures across technical, physical and juridical boundaries.

This practice necessitates the creation of tools and machines for exploration and develops towards public engagement through roundtables, sound performances, visual artefacts and writing.

Going beyond the use of specific techniques or technologies, the Demystification Committee offers alternative narratives to the dominant myths surrounding technology and society.

Shows

Offshore Investigation VehicleUncertainty Playground
London College of Communication, London. 2017